Public Displays of Play: Studying Online Games in Physical Settings

As research on virtual worlds gains increasing attention in educational, commercial, and military domains, a consideration of how player populations are ‘reassembled’ through social scientific data is a timely matter for communication scholars. This paper describes a large‐scale study of virtual worlds in which participants were recruited at public gaming events, as opposed to through online means, and explores the dynamic relationships between players and contexts of play that this approach makes visible. Challenging conventional approaches to quantitatively driven virtual worlds research, which categorizes players based on their involvement in an online game at a particular point in time, this account demonstrates how players' networked gaming activities are contingent on who they are playing with, where, and when.     

资源型城镇环境生态建设

我国资源型城镇面临严峻的环境问题和生态问题,许多小城镇生态绿化体系尚未建立。文章通过对国内外资源型城镇环境和绿化现状以及资源型城镇的分析,结合政府的生态管理职能和景观规划理论,提出环境生态建设的建议与措施,为实现资源型城镇的可持续发展奠定一定的理论基础。     

安县晓坝镇震后新建场址主要岩土工程问题及对策

安县晓坝镇处于＂5.12＂汶川大地震极重灾区,受灾严重,不具备重建条件,需选址重建。在野外详细调查的基础上,通过现场勘查和室内试验,深入研究了晓坝镇灾后新建场址的主要岩土工程问题。研究表明,新建场址主要土层为粉质粘土和淤泥质土,属高压缩性软弱土;地下水埋深浅,对基础施工和地基土承载力影响大;建筑场地类别Ⅱ类,属抗震不利地段。提出了深层水泥土搅拌法和换填地基两种软基处理方案,以及加强地基基础抗震设计等措施。     

基于跳跃-扩散过程的亚式期权定价

在标的资产价格跳过程为更新过程的假设下,研究了具有浮动敲定价格的亚式期权,通过自融资交易复制将路径依赖的亚式期权定价问题转化为与路径无关的微分方程的求解问题,拓展了刘宣会的结果。     

中缅天然气管线沿线滑坡变形监测与机理分析——以黔西南州沙子镇滑坡为例

中缅天然气管线黔西晴隆段沙子镇2016年和2017年连续2次因滑坡引发天然气管线破裂事件,引起了人们的极大关注。滑坡的变形机制和监测对该区的天然气管线的正常运营具有非常重要的意义。在研究区域构造背景的基础上,根据该区地质、构造特征和现场收集的滑坡变形资料及监测数据,开展了该区段变形机制的研究和变形监测分析。研究结果表明:滑坡变形主要划分为管线正常运行阶段的坡体未变形、缓慢蠕滑变形、加速蠕滑变形和管线破裂变形4个阶段。滑坡主要是由于人工堆填土方所引起的蠕滑变形所致。监测数据表明:通过抗滑处理后,坡体的变形得到了有效控制,天然气管线运行较为安全,但仍需要进一步的监测和预报。     

广州市用水结构空间均衡差异性分析

以空间均衡治水方针为指导思想,采用基于洛伦兹曲线、基尼系数的方法,对广州市用水结构整体趋势及均衡差异性进行了分析。结果表明:广州市用水结构空间分配不够均衡,大部分区域已超过设定的警戒线标准;农业用水空间分配差距较大,主要集中于从化、花都、增城区等市内非核心区;工业用水结构虽然整体分布较均衡,但黄埔区与其余区域存在巨大差异,区位熵是其他区域工业平均区位熵的3倍;居民生活、城镇公共、生态环境用水结构空间分配差距悬殊,表现为向天河、越秀、荔湾等市内核心区域集中,且用水量保持逐年增加的趋势,这在一定程度上加剧了区域差异性;各类用水结构差异性虽已得到有效控制,空间均衡性处于平稳阶段,但仍未达到"空间均衡"治水目标,应进一步强化用水监督管理,实现用水结构合理布局和水资源的优化配置。     

高原河流生态保护模式初探——以地震灾后重建“两河”生态保护为例

与平原河流相比,高原河流具有独特的水动力、地质地貌和生态特点。以青海省玉树州结古镇2010年遭受的地震为背景,在对现状进行充分调研、分析的基础上,查找存在的问题,立足治理需求,在满足防洪排涝要求的基础上,提出生态环境改善和景观水文化重建模式,为结古镇未来的经济社会发展和人民生活提供安全、舒适的水利支撑。将生态水力学与工程水力学相结合,根据扎西科河和巴塘河的特点(水文、地理和气候特征),以当地鱼类为保护目标,采用近自然修复技术,确定了河道的平面形态和断面型式。结合《结古镇地震灾后重建总体规划》,对滨水空间进行了划分,并根据有关规范对三线进行了界定。同时对河道的管理提出了一些建设性意见,可对扎西科河和巴塘河的可持续发展提供参考,对流域的治理和保护工作提供借鉴。     

Do Men Advance Faster Than Women? Debunking the Gender Performance Gap in Two Massively Multiplayer Online Games

Prior research on digital games illustrates a perceived gender gap in participation and performance, suggesting men as playing more and better than women. This article challenges the gender gap using longitudinal behavioral data of men and women in 2 MMOs in the United States and China. Results show that women advance at least as fast as men do in both games. Thus, perceived gender‐based performance disparities seem to result from factors that are confounded with gender (i.e., amount of play), not player gender itself. We conclude that the stereotype of female players as inferior is not only false, but also a potential cause for unequal participation in digital gaming.     

Retracted: Antecedents and Consequences of Gender Swapping in Online Games

This study examines the reasons underlying gender swapping and its impacts on online gaming behavior. While previous studies considered gender swapping to be an abnormal or rare exception in one's self‐presentation, this study hypothesized that people swap genders as a rational choice based on practical benefits. An online survey was conducted with 318 male players of MMORPGs in Korea. Players swapped gender in games to gain benefits from other players under the condition of anonymity rather than to represent their own gender identity. Men playing female avatars displayed more socially amiable behaviors conventionally characterized as more feminine. Moreover, players were more willing to purchase virtual goods to decorate their gender swapped avatars, mediated by their emotional attachment to their avatar.     

Gaming Social Capital: Exploring Civic Value in Multiplayer Video Games

Recent research suggests that social interactions in video games may lead to the development of community bonding and prosocial attitudes. Building on this line of research, a national survey of U.S. adults finds that gamers who develop ties with a community of fellow gamers possess gaming social capital, a new gaming‐related community construct that is shown to be a positive antecedent in predicting both face‐to‐face social capital and civic participation.